| 1981-1984 | Post Graduate, University of Latvia |
| 1976-1981 | Department of History and Philosophy, University of Latvia |
| | July 1999 - present Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia (confirmed July 16, 1999). |
| 1998 | - July 1999 Elected Deputy Speaker of the 7th Saeima (Parliament); Head of Latvia's delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union. |
| 1997 - 1998 | Secretary of the 6th Saeima; Head of the Latvian delegation to the North Atlantic Assembly. |
| 1995 - 1997 | Chairman of the the 6th Saeima Foreign Affairs Committee; member of Latvia's delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union. |
| 1993 - 1995 | Deputy Chairman of Latvia's Way Parliamentary Faction in the 5th Saeima; member of Latvia's delegation to the North Atlantic Assembly. |
| 1992 - 1993 | Elected Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Supreme Council; Chairman of the Parliamentary Faction of the Popular Front. |
| 1990 - 1993 | Member of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Latvia; Deputy Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Supreme Council. |
| 1984 - 1990 | Lecturer in history at the University of Latvia in Riga and the Latvian Academy of Agriculture in Jelgava. |
| 1993 | - present Board member of the political party, Latvia's Way. |
| 1966-1970 | Adolf-Reichwein elementary school in Frankfurt-Zeilsheim |
| 1970-1978 | Leibniz High School and BIKUZ High School in Frankfurt-Höchst |
| 1979-1980 | Enlisted soldier at the telecommunications batallion |
| 1981-1987 | Study of law in Mainz, 1st state examination |
| 1987-1990 | Traineeship in Frankfurt, Hochheim and Brussels, 2nd state examination |
| 1990-1991 | Attaché formation at the diplomatic school of the Foreign Office |
| 1991-1993 | Assistant in the department International Environmental Politics of the Foreign Office |
| 1993-1995 | Assistant in the Foreign Affairs Office of the CDU |
| 1995-1999 | Assistant for the Baltic States and the Baltic Sea Council in the Foreign Office |
| since 1999 | Member of the European Parliament |
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| | Functions in the parliamentary period 1999-2004 |
| | - Member of the Committee of Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Security and Defence Politics |
| | - Substitute member in the committee of development and cooperation |
| | - First Vicepresident of the parliamentary committee EU-Lithuania |
| | - Substitute member of the delegation in the parliamentary committee EU-Latvia |
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| | Political Activities |
| | Since 1978 Membership of the Junge Union (JU) |
| 1985-1987 | Secretary, Deputy President and President of the JU municipal association Hattersheim |
| 1987-1989 | Treasurer, Deputy President and President of the JU district association Main-Taunus |
| 1990 -1993 | Treasurer and President of the JU county association Nassau |
| | Deputy of the county in the Hessian regional association |
| 1991-1996 | Member of the International Commission in the JU federal association |
| since 1981 | Membership of the CDU |
| 1986-1989 | CDU city councillor, member of the executive until 1991 |
| since 1988 | Member of the CDU district assembly |
| 1993-1997 | Member of the Regional Planning Assembly at the Regional Council Darmstadt |
| 1994-1996 | President of the German Federal Court of Arbitration |
| since 1994 | Deputy President of the CDU municipal association |
| since 1995 | Delegate to the EPP-congress in the CDU federal association |
| since 1999 | Member of the European Parliament in the CDU regional association |
| | Siim Kallas graduated cum laude from the Tallinn Secondary School No 22 in 1967 and from Tartu State University in finance and credit in 1972. |
| | He was a post-graduate student until 1975 and now is a visiting professor at the university. |
| 1995-1999 | member of parliament and the parliamentary National Defense Committee |
| 1995-1996 | minister of foreign affairs of the Republic of Estonia |
| 1991-1995 | president of the Bank of Estonia |
| 1989-1991 | chairman of the Estonian Central Association of Trade Unions |
| 1986-1989 | deputy editor of the newspaper Rahva Hääl (People's Voice) |
| 1979-1986 | director of the Estonian Central Board of Savings Banks |
| 1975-1979 | specialist at the Finance Ministry of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic |
| 1997 - 2001 | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Lithuania to the European Communities |
| 1992-1997 | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Lithuania to the Kingdom of Sweden |
| 1992 | , September 28 Diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary |
| 1989-1992 | Director and Editor-in-Chief, Publishing company, Vilnius, Lithuania |
| 1973-1989 | Editor, Vice Editor-in-Chief of the science and technology academic journal Mokslas ir technika Vilnius, Lithuania |
| 1972-1973 | Chief Economist, Head of Unit, State Planning Committee, Vilnius, Lithuania |
| 1967-1972 | Vice Head of Unit, Chief Economist, Labour market coordination and management, Labour Committee, Vilnius, Lithuania |
| 1965-1967 | Head of Labour and Wages Department, Fuel injector production factory, Vilnius,Lithuania |
| 1965 | Graduated from Kaunas Institute of Technology, |
| | Diploma in Economy and Engineering |
| 1953 | graduated from the Faculty of History and Languages of Tartu University |
| | worked as dramatist and producer of radio plays in the Estonian broadcasting |
| 1958 | wrote his first book after trip to Central Asia and old Islamic centrs in the Kara-Kum Desert |
| | many books and films on more travels followed and were translated into a dozen languages |
| | significantly contributed to the preservation of the Estonian national identity; first to take protest abroad against Soviet plan of mining phosphate in Estonia (later: the "Singing Revolution") |
| 1988 | founded non-governmental Estonian Institute to promote cultural contacts with the West & send Estonian students to study abroad |
| 1990 | appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs after the first non-communist elections |
| | participated in the CSCE Conferences in Copenhagen, New York, |
